End The Drought Posted June 25, 2019 Share Posted June 25, 2019 https://sports.yahoo.com/amphtml/cowboys-patriots-fans-are-best-in-the-nfl-chiefs-los-angeles-lagging-study-153035364.html By some professor at Emory University ? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TigerJ Posted June 25, 2019 Share Posted June 25, 2019 Hard to comment on it without knowing more detail (yes - I looked at the article). I would say, considering Buffalo is a small market team, 19th is not too bad. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Brown Posted June 25, 2019 Share Posted June 25, 2019 Cowboys, Patriots, Eagles, Giants and Steelers in the top 5. Are you sure this isn't an Onion article? 5 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Punching Bag Posted June 25, 2019 Share Posted June 25, 2019 The Onion is not much different than Emory. I think the professor "publishes" this every year. Some colleges require publishing to keep job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
May Day 10 Posted June 25, 2019 Share Posted June 25, 2019 These are the same flawed "stats" people often use to quantify fan-dom. They heavily favor large markets and teams who are good/bandwagoners To me, the best gauge of a fan base is to view how the fans are during the lean years. 8 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoBills808 Posted June 25, 2019 Share Posted June 25, 2019 Dolphins...ranked 14...is major fail 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bangarang Posted June 25, 2019 Share Posted June 25, 2019 (edited) 19 minutes ago, May Day 10 said: These are the same flawed "stats" people often use to quantify fan-dom. They heavily favor large markets and teams who are good/bandwagoners To me, the best gauge of a fan base is to view how the fans are during the lean years. Whatever criteria gets us to #1! Edited June 25, 2019 by Bangarang 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocky Landing Posted June 25, 2019 Share Posted June 25, 2019 They do this every year, and every year it is stupid. By the very fact that a third of the study relies on what they call “fan equity,” which regards how much money fans are willing to spend, immediately puts fans in economically depressed areas, or areas with lower economic indicators (lower wages, property values, local gdp, etc) at a disadvantage. In fact, in a demographic like Tennessee, where people are only willing to spend a fraction of what fans in New York are willing to spend, for example, may be especially deceiving, as the amount Tennesseans are spending as a percentage of their net income might be significantly higher. Does this study adjust for that? I sincerely doubt it. Although, I will say, Rams being dead last makes perfect sense. Worst. Fans. Ever. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CincyBillsFan Posted June 25, 2019 Share Posted June 25, 2019 33 minutes ago, Doc Brown said: Cowboys, Patriots, Eagles, Giants and Steelers in the top 5. Are you sure this isn't an Onion article? I agree this must be the Onion or maybe it's from Babylon Bee! Of those fan bases I would rank the Steelers ahead of ours but not any of the rest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gobills1212 Posted June 25, 2019 Share Posted June 25, 2019 Weak sauce... we bicker amongst ourselves and have blind optimism like the best of em!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4merper4mer Posted June 25, 2019 Share Posted June 25, 2019 Take the Bills out if it. Pats 2 and Chiefs 31? Shirley. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay_Fixit Posted June 25, 2019 Share Posted June 25, 2019 Patriots fans didn’t exist before 2001. Dolphins at 14 is actually more of a joke than the Patriots anywhere near the top 5. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Turk Posted June 25, 2019 Share Posted June 25, 2019 1 hour ago, End The Drought said: https://sports.yahoo.com/amphtml/cowboys-patriots-fans-are-best-in-the-nfl-chiefs-los-angeles-lagging-study-153035364.html By some professor at Emory University ? Isnt this an old study? I remember reading something sbout a study from a guy at Emory University at least a year ago if not longer that ssid the same nonsense... You want to see the best fan base? Have their team miss the playoffs for 18 years in a row and see how many of those places even have a team let alone a fan base...my guess is not more than 4 other teams. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
End The Drought Posted June 25, 2019 Author Share Posted June 25, 2019 I only briefly skimmed the article. Seemed like it was all based on money. Our love for the Bills is not quantifiable 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ol Dirty B Posted June 25, 2019 Share Posted June 25, 2019 1 hour ago, Limeaid said: The Onion is not much different than Emory. I think the professor "publishes" this every year. Some colleges require publishing to keep job. I always hated buying a professor's book in a college class. Just seems wrong. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
judman Posted June 25, 2019 Share Posted June 25, 2019 Ah the great minds in American academics are working on important matters like this... Meanwhile, cancer 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Punching Bag Posted June 25, 2019 Share Posted June 25, 2019 1 hour ago, Ol Dirty B said: I always hated buying a professor's book in a college class. Just seems wrong. In college I handed my textbook back to professor with corrections. I also discussed his terminology and how he could update it with modern terminology (modern in early 1980s). I was later asked to grade and correct his exam, an exam I needed to take but even if I got a 0 I would have gotten the highest grade in class. When he republished the book he gave me a contributor credit. He gave me an excellent reference for job interviews and I was told "Dr. Zucker's letter was reason why your resume stood out." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billsfan_34 Posted June 25, 2019 Share Posted June 25, 2019 This is comical- WE ARE THE NUMBER 1 FAN BASE 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cle23 Posted June 25, 2019 Share Posted June 25, 2019 2 hours ago, CincyBillsFan said: I agree this must be the Onion or maybe it's from Babylon Bee! Of those fan bases I would rank the Steelers ahead of ours but not any of the rest. I grew up around Steelers "fans." A couple years they were around .500 and you couldn't find Steelers gear or fans anywhere. I went to a game in Pittsburgh in the early 2000s and no one in the stadium that I talked to could name 5 players on the team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
formerlyofCtown Posted June 25, 2019 Share Posted June 25, 2019 6 hours ago, cle23 said: I grew up around Steelers "fans." A couple years they were around .500 and you couldn't find Steelers gear or fans anywhere. I went to a game in Pittsburgh in the early 2000s and no one in the stadium that I talked to could name 5 players on the team. Hey, that Cowher is a good coach. Hes gonna lead us to the World Series of football in 2020.? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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